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COLOMBIA
GEOGRAPHY:

Colombia
stretches over approximately 1,140,000 sq. km, roughly equal to the
area of Portugal, Spain, and France put together. Colombia occupies
the northwestern end of South America, and is the only country there
with coasts on both the Pacific (1350 km long), and the Atlantic
(over 1600 km.) Three Andean ranges run north and south through the
western half of the country (about 45% of the total territory.) The
eastern part is a vast lowland which can be generally divided into
two regions: a huge open savannah on the north, and the amazon in the
south (400,000 sq. km approx.).Colombia is a country of geographical
contrasts and extremes. As well as the features mentioned, it has
such curiosities as the desert of La Guajira, the peninsula in the
most north-eastern tip of the country; the jungle of the pacific
coast which holds one of the world’s rainfall records; and the
Serran?a de la Macarena, an isolated mountain formation about 120 km.
long, rising abruptly from the eastern plains to some 2500 meters.
Colombia also has several small islands. The major ones are the
archipelago of San Andr?s and Providencia in the Caribbean Sea, the
Islas del Rosario and San Bernardo along the Caribeian coast, and
Gorgona and Malpelo in the Pacific Ocean.

HISTORY:

Spaniards
founded Santa Maria la Antigua del Darien in 1510, the first
permanent European settlement on the American mainland. In 1538 the
Spaniards established the colony of New Granada, the area’s name
until 1861. After a 14-year struggle, in which Sim?n Bol?var’s
troops won the battle of Boyac? in Colombia on Aug. 7, 1819,
independence was attained in 1824. Bol?var united Colombia,
Venezuela, Panama, and Ecuador in the Republic of Greater Colombia
(1810-1830), but lost Venezuela and Ecuador to separatists.

Bol?var’s Vice
President, Francisco de Paula Santander, founded the Liberal Party as
the Federalists while Bol?var established the Conservatives as the
Centralists. Santander’s presidency (1832-1936) re-established
order, but later periods of Liberal dominance (1849-1857 and
1861-1880), when the Liberals sought to disestablish the Roman
Catholic Church, were marked by insurrection and even civil war.
Rafael Nu?ez, in a 15-year-presidency, restored the power of the
central government and the church, which led in 1899 to a bloody
civil war

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